Adobe is slated to kick off "Create Now Live" on Dec. 11, with a keynote from Vice President of Products Jeffrey Veen. Among the topics of discussion will be new Creative Cloud features and design talks from industry professionals.

If any app can benefit from/has a reason to adopt Retina hardware it's Photoshop.

There are a few apps I'd place above Photoshop in importance. Illustrator and InDesign, most notably. I think they're much more important to have Retina display support than Photoshop. That and any type design software. I'd much rather have my type and vector graphics retina-rendered than bitmapped graphics any day.

I have a rMBP but I am still a little confused by what they mean that the applications are optimized for Retina. Aren't we just talking about the user interface? So any graphic buttons or icons are higher res, big deal... Most of the user interface is text so that it can be multilingual. There is no change to the content of the document and with those design apps you already benefit from retina by virtue of the crisper display quality. The thing that really needs fixing is the actual size of the content. If you pull up the rulers in those design apps on a retina display the inch ruler looks more like a metric ruler since is is so much smaller than real life.

With Adobe's history of charging for the most trivial of updates I'm going to be shocked if this isn't a paid upgrade... "CS 6.5 w/ retina support please bring your wheel barrel of money". Sorry for the cynisim I just lost all respect for adobe years ago...

With Adobe's history of charging for the most trivial of updates I'm going to be shocked if this isn't a paid upgrade... "CS 6.5 w/ retina support please bring your wheel barrel of money". Sorry for the cynisim I just lost all respect for adobe years ago...

I am very happy with the subscription model. Adobe CS is the gold standard of design applications. As a professional designer I would be hard pressed to get any respect or business without it. We share working files with other designers from around the world and the only acceptable formats are CS files.